session of the Council of People's Commissars 49 (6) January, where each point was briefly formulated for the protocol record.
In the appendix we present the text of the theses, in the form as they were formulated in the protocol of the Council of People's Commissars from 49 (6) January 4948. All points in substance were adopted without changes; to the second point was added "accepted, with indication of the departure of part of the Muslim faction."
Hence in both Lenin's first sketch and in the theses there is an annotation to the second point "withdrawal of Muslims." This note was not used in the text of the decree.
The decree was written, probably, after the session of the Council of People's Commissars, which concluded at 6 o'clock in the evening on 49 (6) January, and before 44 o'clock in the evening of the same day, when the session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee began, where the decree was adopted at 4 o'clock 50 minutes in the morning of 20 (7) January 4948; consequently, the decree was written on 49 (6) January 4948 between 6 — 44 o'clock in the evening.
The Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly was first published in Izvestiya № 3 (269), 20 (7) January 4948. Printed in Works, vol. XXII, pp. 488—490.
The printed text represents essentially Lenin's draft of the decree.
The decree is printed from the manuscript, in Lenin's first draft, with minor corrections apparently made in the course of review; following this we present the concluding part of the decree in the commission's version.
In the footnotes, variants are noted from the printed text of Izvestiya № 5 (269), 20 (7) January 4948.
The initial sketch of the theses for the decree on the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly was made on a sheet of paper where a record was kept of speakers who spoke, apparently, at a session of the Council of People's Commissars.
It must be assumed that this sketch was made at some preliminary conference.
According to personal recollections of I. P. Gorbunov, who was at that time secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, on 48 (5) January 4948 during a session of the Constituent Assembly, in one of the distant rooms in the Tauride Palace the Council of People's Commissars was in session, the composition was incomplete, no protocol of the session was kept. There is a supposition that this sketch was made precisely at this session.
LENIN COLLECTION